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Help test Launchpad’s new API!

Launchpad is big. Really big. Almost two and a half million people have Launchpad user accounts and close to seven and a half thousand projects are registered in the directory.

Then there are the couple of hundred thousand bug reports, thousands of code branches, millions of translated strings, blueprints, user support questions, personal package archives, mailing lists and more.

One of the goals of Launchpad 2.0 is to make it easier to access that data and, with this release, we’re introducing the beta test of our new restful web API and Python library!

During the test, the API and library will provide access to the bug tracker, as well as people and teams. Within time, our aim is to make the API as comprehensive as the web interface. In the Launchpad team, we’re really excited by the idea that this gives you the tools to do things with Launchpad we haven’t even dreamt of.

We’ll be making the full announcement of the API beta test on this blog later this week. In the mean time, sign up to the Launchpad Beta Testers team!

This entry was posted by Matthew Revell on Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 10:00 pm and is filed under Cool new stuff. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Help test Launchpad’s new API!”

  1. Emanuel Gardaya Calso Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 6:22 am

    Hello. I wish i could use this API to create a cached / offline version of some of our projects in launchpad. I’m planning on creating a desktop-based / locally-hosted system to do this.

    This would be useful for the developers and users of our systems. The users could just update this system even if their offline, then the system would take care of uploading new / modified bug report / change requests when the computer goes online. This would benefit the developers as well.. as we could just let the program get requests / bug reports in a convenient way.. say in an rss feed.

    If, however, you already have or know of a system that does this, kindly tell me.

    Thanks,
    Eman

  2. Nicholas Marshall Says:
    August 9th, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    This sound really neat. When you are ready I would like to make a conduit plug in for it.

    Nick

  3. U.D KRISHANTHA Says:
    January 21st, 2009 at 5:24 am

    I LIKE OPENSOURS SOFTWEREAS.I NEVER USE UBUNTU.BUT NOW I LIKE USE TO UR UBUNTU SOFTWERE

  4. Nikhil Ben Kuruvilla Says:
    January 25th, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    Good idea………… We gladly welcome this…..

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